Handerek Technologies
A technological company that is working to tackle the global waste problem through creating the most effective method to convert plastic waste into fuel.
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Mi Algae
An AgTech start-up that recycles co-products of food and drink production to grow Omega-3 rich microalgae, returning clean water and reducing the reliance of wild caught fish as a source of Omega-3 in the process.
MakeGrowLab
A company that focuses on giving food waste alternative uses, such as SCOBY packaging and leather. They turn biowaste into biomaterials that are 100% home compostable and toxic-free.
Ÿnsect
This company focuses on creating high nutrient pet and aquaculture food, as well as other products like fertilizer and oil, from insects at a large scale.
Sustainability: what the entrepreneurship educators think
The purpose of this paper is to consider the understanding and presence of sustainability within entrepreneurship education. The extant literature on sustainability within the entrepreneurship discipline remains extremely limited. Previously, sustainability within an entrepreneurship context has related to economic viability as opposed to sustainability in its broadest sense. This study explores, through a survey of […]
Sustainable Entrepreneurship and Sustainability Innovation: Categories and Interactions
The purpose of this paper is to propose a framework to position sustainable entrepreneurship in relation to sustainability innovation. The framework builds on a typology of sustainable entrepreneurship, develops it by including social and institutional entrepreneurship, i.e. the application of the entrepreneurial approach towards meeting societal goals and towards changing market contexts, and relates it […]
Rethinking 21st-Century Businesses: An Approach to Fourth Sector SMEs in Their Transition to a Sustainable Model Committed to SDGs
With barely ten years remaining to reach the goals included in the United Nations 2030 Agenda (UN2030A), there is still no agreed-upon universal criterion regarding how businesses can move firmly forward to achieve them. A significant number of laudable initiatives have emerged and been consolidated internationally, highlighting the need to change the outdated mainstream economic […]
Entrepreneurship Education and Sustainable Development Goals: A literature Review and a Closer Look at Fragile States and Technology-Enabled Approaches
Entrepreneurship has the potential to reduce poverty, stimulate economic growth and boost innovation, in addition to enhancing social and environmental sustainability. In accordance with the human capital theory and previous empirical studies, it is assumed that entrepreneurship education and training (EET) directly correlates with positive entrepreneurial outcomes and therefore sustainable development. Although several scholars have […]
Learning apart and together: towards an integrated competence framework for sustainable entrepreneurship in higher education
Sustainable entrepreneurs, i.e. thosewhoproactively facilitate latent demands for sustainable development, are nowin higher demandthan ever before. Higher (business) education can play an important role in laying the foundation for these sustainable entrepreneurs. Traditionally, however, educational scholars focus either on the issue of education for sustainability or on entrepreneurship education. There is little work which explores […]
Greening Goliaths versus emerging Davids — Theorizing about the role of incumbents and new entrants in sustainable entrepreneurship
This paper proposes a model of how incumbents and new entrants engage in sustainable entrepreneurship. We suggest that in the early stages of an industry’s sustainability transformation, new entrants (‘Emerging Davids’) are more likely than incumbents to pursue sustainability-related opportunities. Incumbents react to the activities of new entrants by engaging in corporate sustainable entrepreneurship activities. […]
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